I've just split the 1:10m Natural Earth countries into individual JSON files which I plan to render and partially stitch back together using RaphaelJS. The 1:10m map is very big (10mb or so) so loading it all in one go in the browser is not really feasible.

But how do I get the position of each country? Opening the 1:10m map in ArcMap's Attribute Table shows no signs of any latitude, longitude, X or Y or whatever.

Maybe this info needs to be extracted from an exported JSON of the full map using some JS virtual canvas / positioning system? I.e. for each of the individual countries that need to be stitched together, some server-side script would query the full JSON to get their paths?

in the most simple case a country is one polygon. the polygon is definded by pairs of lat/lon coordinates, where the last pair = the first pair (means polygon is closed). what do you mean with position? the centroid of that polygon?
– KurtJul 13 '12 at 21:48